tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post6641472486705664580..comments2016-12-06T10:20:00.711-05:00Comments on Olive Tree Genealogy Blog: RootsTech Official Bloggers Get Critiqued Lorine McGinnis Schulzehttps://plus.google.com/107861372570950053948noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-32589845932189536572013-04-26T11:17:25.402-04:002013-04-26T11:17:25.402-04:00I want to let you know that your blog post is list...I want to let you know that your blog post is listed in today&#39;s Fab Finds post at http://janasgenealogyandfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/2013/04/follow-friday-fab-finds-for-april-25.html<br /><br />Have a great weekend!Jana Lasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07687969613629975601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-51263172360569189562013-04-21T19:49:14.393-04:002013-04-21T19:49:14.393-04:00Great post about this! I think you handled a diffi...Great post about this! I think you handled a difficult issue VERY well and I thank you for not just dismissing her concerns. I think part of her frustration was the selection of non-genealogy bloggers chosen this year, and then who failed to write anything about RootsTech - that was a poor choice on the conference&#39;s part. I do agree about the name change - not a great or welcoming title - she should really re-think that!Cheri Danielshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700942096676683769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-79405406723943527902013-04-21T19:25:44.660-04:002013-04-21T19:25:44.660-04:00I like the tone of your comments, Lorine. You hear...I like the tone of your comments, Lorine. You hear the suggestions and give some suggestions back!<br /><br />Your most salient point is that anyone can blog or tweet about a conference, any time. Just announce yourself on Twitter and you&#39;ll have a ready-made audience.<br /><br />There&#39;s an old saying, &quot;Everybody&#39;s a critic.&quot; And it&#39;s true. Very true.Mariann Reganhttp://mariannsregan.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-3107376830677900802013-04-21T17:58:16.378-04:002013-04-21T17:58:16.378-04:00I have read the Nitpicker&#39;s critique of the Ro...I have read the Nitpicker&#39;s critique of the Roots Tech Official Bloggers. It got me started thinking back to all the blogs I have read leading up to, during, and after Roots Tech and I read a lot of genealogy blogs. I feel the event was well publicized and news well reported by all the Official Bloggers I read. <br /><br />Your suggestions that Nitpicker try a different approach to get invited to be an O.B. was well presented, as was DearMyrtle&#39;s take on the issue.<br /><br />Not being a blogger, I can only comment from the other side of the page and I think Banai has more issues than can be handled here. Her new blog title just about says it all. I won&#39;t be reading any more &quot;nitpicking&quot;.Diane Scannellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-65774087520562191162013-04-21T15:55:51.782-04:002013-04-21T15:55:51.782-04:00I think you handled the &quot;critique&quot; very ...I think you handled the &quot;critique&quot; very we&#39;ll, Lorine!<br /><br />I agree with you, if Banai &quot;Nitpicker&quot; wants to be an official blogger at RootsTech then she needs to prove to them that she would do a great job at it. And in my opinion, nitpicking about other official bloggers is NOT the way of doing that. <br /><br />I find one of her statements in her post very interesting - &quot;You can’t expect my blog, focused more on one ethnic group, to get as much traffic as some of these others. &quot; I have never read her blog before so I may be wrong, but it appears she recently changed the name of her blog from &quot;The Ginger Jewish Genealogist&quot; to &quot;The Genealogy Nitpicker.&quot; In my opinion, if she is wanting to gain a larger crowd of people reading her blog, nitpicking and complaining about of genealogists, societies, companies, etc. is not the best way of getting more people to read her blog.<br /><br />The entire time I was reading her blog critique posts I kept thinking to myself, I don&#39;t want to keep reading! I don&#39;t want to spend my time reading about someone nitpicking every little thing that they don&#39;t like and saying how they think they are better than others. That is not what an official blogger should be doing.<br /><br />She also made such a large emphasis on search tools on people&#39;s blogs. I read her blog on my iPad, and the entire right-hand sidebar where her search box is located was at the very bottom of the blog page. One suggestion for her is to make her blog mobile friendly so the large group of people who use mobile devices can easily navigate her blog...<br /><br />Again, I think you handled this situation very well, Lorine. I think you fulfilled your role as an official blogger wonderfully, especially since it was not your fault you couldn&#39;t make it due to health problems.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com